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It's been nearly a three weeks since our last incident, which means we'll probably have another Earth-shattering drama of some kind soon. We're even getting a new instructor, which in my experience means that we will have either soldiers or the mafia in quite short order. (Also, everyone seems very excited about the new instructor. What's the big deal?) Hoping for the mafia; I have some very strongly-phrased things to say to them which may or may not involve a blunt object or ten.

My vote, however, goes to Thursday, and vampires. We haven't had any vampires; they've got to show up sooner or later. Perhaps they'll be Canadian vampires, fitting in with our new arrival. I am not sure they exist, but they probably do in some form; of course, I have never met one personally. (Vampires, that is, not Canadians.)

I'm off for a run outside, since it's gorgeous out. Having weather that goes by the actual course of nature is fantastic.

Date: 2004-07-12 07:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-shinobi.livejournal.com
Vampires, Canadian or otherwise, would be so.. mundane, though.

What about space pirates? A crew of space pirates could crash in the back yard, their ship damaged from their escape from the intergalactic authorities.

Date: 2004-07-12 07:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com
Nah. Exiled alien robot from a machine society seeking asylum. Bet you.

Date: 2004-07-12 07:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-shinobi.livejournal.com
That sounds probable.. but what would it be seeking asylum from?

Date: 2004-07-12 07:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-snowflake.livejournal.com
No, something more specific. Like its estranged uncle who wants to take over the universe, and only this little robot can save us all from fiery death.

Date: 2004-07-12 08:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com
Darth Robot. "Wacky little asylum-seeking robot . . . I am your father!"

. . . Wait, I keep forgetting, have we sat you down in front of Star Wars since you got back? We should do that if we haven't.

Date: 2004-07-12 08:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-snowflake.livejournal.com
Is Star Wars the one with the gentleman who looks very much like Professor Xavier?

Date: 2004-07-12 08:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com
Nah, that's Star Trek. Star Wars is the one with the laser swords.

Now that you mention it, though, I would really, really like a videotape of Professor Xavier saying "Make it so." I wonder if we can bribe him.

Date: 2004-07-12 08:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-snowflake.livejournal.com
I don't think I'm familiar with Star Wars, then. While I was ill I watched quite a lot of television, and I did see the Star Trek one a few times.

I think Professor Xavier drinks the same kind of tea as the character on the television.

Date: 2004-07-12 08:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com
Have to do a movie night sometime, then. Some people call them classics of science fiction, I call them "forewarned is forearmed." Everybody here needs to know what to do if a giant planet-destroying space station shows up, because you just know there's gonna be one.

Date: 2004-07-12 08:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-snowflake.livejournal.com
And in all likelihood one of the students will be an alien in disguise, sent to earth lo those many years ago to escape the tyranny --

Now I'm talking like the television. No more television for me; books give good advice, like, "in case of giant planet-destroying space station, run and hide."

Date: 2004-07-12 08:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com
That's not gonna do much good for a planet-destroying space station, though. That's when movies come in handy, because they tell you about the space station's secret weakness.

Date: 2004-07-12 08:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-snowflake.livejournal.com
... Well, that's true, actually. Although I rather think the solution in that case would be to send a mutant with the explosive kind of power to deal with it, and if necessary sacrifice himself for the greater good.

Date: 2004-07-12 08:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com
Nah, see, the heroic thing is, you fly in, blow up the space station, and escape in the nick of time. Self-sacrifice for the greater good looks good on paper, but it's definitely a last-resort kind of thing.

Date: 2004-07-12 08:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-snowflake.livejournal.com
Well, I did say "if necessary", but I will agree that getting out in the nick of time is a bit more comfortable for the party in question.

Star Wars taught you all this?

Date: 2004-07-12 08:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com
Pretty much.

That, and "Always let the Wookiee win." Very important, that.

Date: 2004-07-12 08:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-snowflake.livejournal.com
What in bloody hell is a Wookie?

Date: 2004-07-12 08:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com
Eight feet tall, covered in fur, very sore loser.

We seriously need to get you watching these movies.

Date: 2004-07-12 09:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-snowflake.livejournal.com
Oh, that's lovely. These are completely fictional creatures, yes?

Watching them might rid me of the vague sensation that I have no idea what's going on.

Date: 2004-07-12 09:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com
Absolutely.

At least as far as I know. I haven't actually been to any other galaxies, but the Wookiee in the movie was a guy in a suit.

You doing anything tomorrow?

Date: 2004-07-12 09:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-snowflake.livejournal.com
Oh, thank every god there is. Wookies rank up there with mole people on my list of things I never want to deal with.

Tomorrow? Beyond trying to break an hour and a half of running (I seem to have plateau'd a bit on that score), nothing much.

Date: 2004-07-12 09:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com
Movie afternoon, then?

Running seems to be kinda popular all of a sudden. Maybe I should start, I've been kinda worried I'm getting out of shape.

Date: 2004-07-12 10:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-snowflake.livejournal.com
Yes, let's do that; you've got me quite curious about this movie now.

Well, I don't know about everyone else, but I'm running because I have become hideously out of shape and given the hand life has dealt me, I feel it is strongly necessary for me to be able to both fend for myself and run very fast. Also, the terrain here is very nice, and lends itself to quiet thinking.

...

Date: 2004-07-12 08:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-tarot.livejournal.com
At least if we do have aliens seeking refuse, we have a very good chance of talking to them. Languages from the future, languages from the past. All Doug really needs to complete his collection is one from another planet.

...

I wonder if Doug speaks Klingon?

Re: ...

Date: 2004-07-12 08:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com
. . . oh, hell, you know, I bet he does. He's just that much of a geek.

Don't hit me, Doug, you know you are. :)

Re: ...

Date: 2004-07-12 08:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-tarot.livejournal.com
I am almost certain he does. He does not throw things at the television and get offended and storm off in a huff like he does for other 'fake' languages.

I still think he wants to find a way to ressurect Tolkein and lecture him.

Re: ...

Date: 2004-07-12 08:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com
Tolkien's languages are cooler than Klingon even if they don't have any more vocabulary or grammar than they absolutely had to for the bits in the books.

But if he can get a couple more books out of the guy while he's at it, I say resurrect away.

Re: ...

Date: 2004-07-12 08:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-tarot.livejournal.com
I am not the one throwing books around in disgust.

If it helps, he is -worse- with the ones that are completly fake and have -no- real sense of structure.

Re: ...

Date: 2004-07-12 08:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com
You're the one who can shut him up when he starts, though. ;)

Re: ...

Date: 2004-07-12 08:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-tarot.livejournal.com
Who says I have -not- been shutting him up? Sometimes I think he does it just to get shut up.

Re: ...

Date: 2004-07-12 08:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com
Yeah, I've noticed he likes making things more complicated than they have to be.

Re: ...

Date: 2004-07-12 08:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-tarot.livejournal.com
Did you notice that? I thought I noticed you noticing.

Date: 2004-07-12 07:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-snowflake.livejournal.com
With our luck, the crash would destroy the mansion, and we'd be rebuilding the damn thing.

Date: 2004-07-12 08:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-psylocke.livejournal.com
I have never been one for manual labor. I do much better overseeing such activites.

Date: 2004-07-12 08:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-snowflake.livejournal.com
As do I.

Personally, I think we'd be well within our rights to declare reconstruction work for the menfolk.

Date: 2004-07-12 08:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-psylocke.livejournal.com
I wholeheartedly agree.

Anything made of snips, snails, and puppy-dog tails should be put to work.

Date: 2004-07-12 08:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-snowflake.livejournal.com
Yes, immediately. I mean, there isn't much else they're good for.

Date: 2004-07-12 11:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-polarisstar.livejournal.com
Not Thursday! I'm totally booked Thursday. Do you suppose we could reschedule apocalypse until Sunday? Preferably around noon?

And vampires are so 90s! I'm putting my money on a mad scientist threatening to send the world back to the ice age. Or time travel! Yeah, we haven't had any time travellers yet. I'm voting for the madman from the future who tries to destroy the mansion to prevent his world's history.

Date: 2004-07-12 11:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-snowflake.livejournal.com
Vampires, though, are easy to kill, and if you're careful, they don't even blow up your house. Madmen tend to be worse about explosives, I think. Especially ones who don't want you to exist in the future.

Date: 2004-07-13 12:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-polarisstar.livejournal.com
I suppose you're right. I still think that madmen from the future would be more interesting. Especially if he, she or they decide to infiltrate first to seek out the traitor.

Date: 2004-07-13 12:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-shinobi.livejournal.com
We do have the Askani, though.. they count as time travellers, I think. Sort of.

Date: 2004-07-13 09:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-colossus.livejournal.com
This wouldn't be the same mafia from earlier this year?

Date: 2004-07-13 11:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-snowflake.livejournal.com
Well honestly, Piotr, what other mafia is there? It's not as though I'm going to walk up to random mobsters and hit them, is it?

Date: 2004-07-13 11:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-colossus.livejournal.com
True. I'd be happy to hit them too.

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